horrid — may be seen as the least emphatic in a series of adjectives meaning ‘disagreeable’ which proceed with increasing severity to horrible and horrifying. Horrendous and horrific, once stronger still than any of these, have lost much of their power… … Modern English usage

horrid — adj. 1) horrid to 2) horrid to + inf. (it s horrid of you to tease them like that) * * * [ hɒrɪd] horrid to horrid to + inf. (it s horrid of you to tease them like that) … Combinatory dictionary

horrid — [[t]hɒ̱rɪd, AM hɔ͟ːr [/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you describe something as horrid, you mean that it is very unpleasant indeed. [INFORMAL] What a horrid smell!... The winter was horrid. Syn: horrible 2) ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ to n If you describe someone… … English dictionary